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Pudding Filled Cupcakes With Zesty Lemon Buttercream Frosting

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This is a sponsored post. All opinions are 100% mine. I was lucky to have a mom who loved to cook. She taught how to follow a recipe, prepare an entire meal and many other tips and tricks. The one thing I had difficulty with was baking. No matter what I tried to bake, it would come out awful. Either the cookies were burnt, my cupcakes were hard as a rock or may cakes were sunken and dry. Over the past year, I have experimented with baking and kept trying recipes until I got it right. Now I am happy to report, I can bake just about anything like a pro.

Pucker up! My Pudding Filled Cupcakes With Zesty Lemon Buttercream Frosting are the perfect balance between tart and sweet.

Pudding Filled Cupcakes With Zesty Lemon Buttercream Frosting

My parents loved telling a story about the first time I tasted a lemon. We were at a favorite restaurant with my Gram. We were celebrating her birthday. My mom ordered water with extra lemon. The waiter placed the small plate of lemons between me and my mom. I reached for one and stuck it in my mouth. Instead of making a grimace as one would expect, I smiled and reached for another! Forward a few decades and I still love lemons as much as I did then! One of my favorite recipes are Pudding Filled Cupcakes With Zesty Lemon Buttercream Frosting. What a perfect balance between tart and sweet. The homemade buttercream frosting just melts in your mouth!

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The one thing I hated about making this recipe was filling the cupcakes with the pudding. I would either use a spoon or a knife to dig out some of the cupcake. Next, I would spoon or pipe in the filling. Because pudding is so think when it sets, it was hard to work with. And then I discovered the Ultimate Cupcake Set from Kuhn Rikon and my life changed forever! This set, which retails for just $30, comes with everything you need to make your favorite cupcake recipe (except the foodie ingredients of course.) The set comes with:

  • 1 Cupcake Corer
  • 6 Silicone Baking Cups
  • 1 Decorating/Filler Bottle
  • 2 Decorating Bottles
  • 3 Steel Decorating Tips
  • 1 Tall Batter Bottle
  • 1 Frosting Spatula
  • Instructions & Recipes

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Now making my Pudding Filled Cupcakes With Zesty Lemon Buttercream Frosting is so easy! The Cupcake Corer is the perfect tool to make the hole for my filling. And the Filler Bottle has a larger opening, so the pudding pipes in with ease. I love the reusable silicone baking cups because they save me from buying cupcake liners. The decorating bottles and steel decorating tips make decorating my cupcakes so fun! I feel like my cupcakes look almost professional. With some practice, I think you my homemade cupcakes will look like they were store bought!

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The recipe for my Pudding Filled Cupcakes With Zesty Lemon Buttercream Frosting is simple. I use a store bought cake mix, either lemon or yellow. Make the mix according to directions. Using the Tall Batter Bottle, fill your Silicone Baking Cups with the cake mix about 2/3 full. Bake according to directions. Allow to cool. Use the Cupcake Corer to make the hole for your pudding. Prepare one box of lemon pudding and allow to semi-set. Using the Tall Batter Bottle, fill the cupcake holes with your pudding.

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To make your Zesty Lemon Buttercream Frosting, you need just a few ingredients. You need 2.5 cups of powdered sugar, 1/3 cup butter, at room temperature, 1 tbsp. of lemon juice, 1 tbsp. heavy cream, 1 tsp. lemon extract, and 1 tsp. vanilla extract. In your stand mixer, using the paddle attachment, cream your butter for 1 minute. Add 1 cup of the powdered sugar. Cream for 1 minute. Add your liquid ingredients and remaining powdered sugar. Mix well, for about 4-5 minutes. Spoon into your Kuhn Rikon Decorating Bottles, using the Steel Decorating Tip of your choice. Garnish with a small lemon wedge and mint. I used the yellow Wilton decorating sugar as well. I think they turned out just perfect!

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Comments

  9. I love lemons too!! 🙂 My ultimate cupcake is Raspberry Filled Lemon cupcakes! This set would make them SO much easier to make!

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  12. These look delicious! I love cupcakes and lemon is one of my favourites so these would be seriously devoured in my house! i would love to give them a try!

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  15. Oh my goodness these cupcakes look amazing! I think my ultimate cupcake would involve a lot of chocolate and peanut butter. A filling would be a must too!

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  17. I am so excited to try this recipe. I will have to get the ingredients I need to make these for dessert tomorrow.

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  32. Oh this looks delicious! My favorite is one I have never found the right recipe for… raspberry cream cheese. I had it years ago while visiting a friend in SD, amazing! Would love to know how to make them, will try your lemon ones instead…. I bet they are amazing!

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  45. It honestly depends on my mood. Sometimes I want something ooey, gooey, and chocolately with peanut butter too. And then other times I love something lighter or fruity. These look yummy!

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  46. These sound so good. However, I’m a glutton for chocolate and strawberry anything. But pumpkin too…ok, I just LOVE cupcakes. And these look delish! Super job!

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  49. Yum, those cupcakes look delicious. I have never filled any with pudding but having the right tools sure makes a difference.

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  54. The ultimate cupcake is a moist cupcake with light airy buttercream frosting that’s not too sweet and is lemon flavor. I take after my dad I love anything with lemon flavor

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  56. Fluffy butter cream frosting on the outside while in the core is strawberry puree and the fluffiest butter cream frosting.

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  57. To me the ultimate cupcake would be a Kentucky Bourbon cupcake. Also, a cupcake that has no calories or fat. LOL

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  59. Your lemon filled cupcake looks pretty awesome. Some are too sweet, so I think the lemon tang would be perfect for my tastes.

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  60. These look so good, lemon has always been one of my favorite dessert flavors. The ultimate cupcake flavor though would be once with a cookie dough filling, been meaning to make them actually.

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  63. My ultimate cupcake would be pineapple cupcake with pineapple filling and pineapple frosting along with dry pineapple bits.

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  69. My ultimate cupcake would most definitely involve chocolate, and have either coconut or peanut butter frosting. Yum!

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  73. Strawberry filled cupcakes with cream cheese frosting is my favorite. But, I do love anything lemon so I’ll be trying your recipe out next 🙂

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  74. My daughter loves Red Velvet cupcakes and I like anything with chocolate or mocha. Chocolate cupcakes with mocha frosting!

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  77. I’ve tried lots of different cupcakes…and my daughter loves to make all different flavors. But quite frankly, I’m a very basic girl and I believe the best cupcake is still your plain ‘ole chocolate cupcake with vanilla frosting!

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  79. These lemon cupcakes look delish. My ultimate cupcake is Coconut with chocolate ganache filling, frosted with coconut frosting topped with almond slivers and coconut flakes. I was baking one day and had some extra filling and tried different batters with the filling. The coconut with chocolate just melted in my mouth. I love baking and trying new things. I can’t wait to try your lemon.

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  81. These look delicious! My ultimate cupcake would be a cherry chip batter with a vanilla pudding filling and buttercream frosting.

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  84. My mouth is seriously watering from just looking at your delicious cupcakes. And oh my gosh, you have killed photography skills!!!! My favorite cupcake is Pumpkin with whipped brown sugar cream & pecan praline. YUM! I can’t wait to try your recipe. I’m hoping I win! 🙂

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  94. Oh you know, the HOMEMADE version of a hostess cupcake. Chocolate cake with white filling and fudge frosting on top.

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  95. Right now the pudding Filled Cupcakes With Zesty Lemon Buttercream Frosting is my ultimate cupcake….I would really like to try it out….thanks

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  97. The ultimate cupcake? I’d have to say anything that can make me get that ecstasy face! You know, the face when something is just so good you can’t help yourself! 😛

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  104. I like this recipe for cupcakes. My family has been turned off of cupcakes by the ones for sale in the local bakeries that are more frosting than cake. This is a great treat.

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  105. a cupcake with cheesecake filling
    any flavor cake mix with flavored cheesecake for example take white cake mix stir in coconut and crushed pineapple bake cupcakes
    for filling make key lime cheesecake fill cupcake
    frosting make a cream cheese frosting mixed with coconut, crushed pine apple
    frost cupcake top with marchino cherry

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